After being assured by our host at the Guesthouse that the fog wouldn’t stop or delay the ferries, we discovered that they were running two and a half hours late because, surprise, surprise, the heavy fog!!! This was the same host who recommended to us to 2 very ordinary places for meals 2 nights running. Maybe we’re spolit or maybe, Stornoway isn’t the gourmet epicentre of Scotland? We would have loved to have tried the Thai Chicken in a tomato and basil sauce with spaghetti …. Hmmmmmm makes your mouth water doesn’t it? and this was in a Bangladeshi/Indian “restaurant”.
Spending an extra 2.5 hours wandering the streets of Stornoway was quite a challenge – Gail hit the shops but still couldn’t fill in the time. I hit the internet in the local library and checked on our bookings for later next week. We had discovered that the Ryder Cup (big golf event USA v Europe) is on at the same time and in the same area as we would be. We had planned on just taking pot luck but decided to book – lucky we did as most places were booked out! During my checking though I discovered that I had booked two places on the same night – thus now having no accommodation on Wednesday. I cancelled one at no cost but couldn’t rebook for Wednesday as they were full, so now we are off to Lossiemouth – the name alone makes a trip there worthwhile don’t you think?
The fog is still with us today so we wandered the quaint port of Ullapool before taking a drive around the area seeing a ruined castle, interesting geological stuff, lots of misty hills and lochs, and had a pie at Lochinver’s “famous pie shop” – (incredible variety of really good pies) and generally played at being tourists.
Approaching Ullapool from Harris and Lewis, late evening
Spending an extra 2.5 hours wandering the streets of Stornoway was quite a challenge – Gail hit the shops but still couldn’t fill in the time. I hit the internet in the local library and checked on our bookings for later next week. We had discovered that the Ryder Cup (big golf event USA v Europe) is on at the same time and in the same area as we would be. We had planned on just taking pot luck but decided to book – lucky we did as most places were booked out! During my checking though I discovered that I had booked two places on the same night – thus now having no accommodation on Wednesday. I cancelled one at no cost but couldn’t rebook for Wednesday as they were full, so now we are off to Lossiemouth – the name alone makes a trip there worthwhile don’t you think?
The fog is still with us today so we wandered the quaint port of Ullapool before taking a drive around the area seeing a ruined castle, interesting geological stuff, lots of misty hills and lochs, and had a pie at Lochinver’s “famous pie shop” – (incredible variety of really good pies) and generally played at being tourists.